︎@maria_a_ahmed

︎ mariaastudio@outlook.com

Selected activities:

APhf Dummy Award, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, 10 June-26 July, 2026 (forthcoming)

Artist’s page, Artist’s Book Yearbook 2026-7, edited by Sarah Bodman

The Doughnut(W)hole group show featuring Beautiful the Chewed Sounds, curated by Kim Shaw and co-produced by Sarah-Jane Field for the Wrong Biennale, online 2025-2026

Participant, Peckham 24 A Bigger Book Fair, 2024-6

Artist in residence, AARK Finland, Korpo, 2022-6

The Doughnut(W)hole group show featuring Beautiful the Chewed Sounds, curated by Kim Shaw and co-produced by Sarah-Jane Field for the Wrong Biennale, Hapax Living Room, London, 1-2 November 2025

“Worm(h)oles” artist discussion, chaired by Gisela Torres with Dr Jane Boyer, Sarah-Jane Field and Maria Ahmed, Hapax Living Room, 1 November 2025

Featured artist, Warped Space archive curated by Vladimir Florentin, 2025

AARK 10 Dialog group show, Galleria Aski, Turku, Finland, curated by Renja Leino and Lilli Haapala, 2025

De-constructed,  B-Part Exhibition, Berlin, group show curated by the Photographic Exploration Project, 2025 

Infinite Index, artist’s publication for ABC mail art project Pushing the Envelope - 99g curated by Lucy Helton at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, 2025 

Epistemologies artist’s film screening as part of Garden of Humanities, curated by Lily Haapala and hosted by video art festival Turku Art House, Finland, at Kino Kilta, 2025

Participant, Offprint London, Tate Modern, 2024-5

Feature, Philosophy and Photography Lab, 2024

Participant, Inventory Art Book Fair, 2024

Participant, Format Print Market, QUAD Derby, 2024

Pecha Kucha, Ambika P3 gallery, 2023

Participant, artist’s book workshop, Backbone Books, Berlin, 2023

Artist’s talk with Lucy Soutter and Sarah-Jane Field, Photofusion, 2023

Slips and Burns - solo exhibition, Photofusion, 2023
Curator: Katy Barron

TRACE Mentorship artist’s development scheme 2022-3 (online) 

Format 22 Artist’s panel discussion with Ibby Azab, 2022 (online)

Format 22 multiplayer exhibition Kipya Ki? (What’s New?) 2022
Curators: Ibrahim Azab (UK) & Trevor Mukholi (Uganda) (online)

Select 21 Artist’s talk with Katy Barron, Photofusion, 2022 (online)

Select 21 Photofusion group show, 2022

Participant, London Creative Network 2021-2 (online)

Photofusion Salon group show, 2021

I Didn’t Lick it, Bruton Correspondence School, 2021 (mail art)

Source Graduate Photography Online, 2020

Artist’s books:

Beautiful the Chewed Sounds, 2025
Infinite Index, 2025
Flusspaper, 2024
In Pursuit of an Apparition Hands can Miss the Object, 2024 
Slips & Burns, 2023
Heaven Speed the Chameleon, 2021
Soft Knowledge, 2020
A Place Without Ground, 2020

Awards:

Shortlisted Chose Commune Dummy Award
Shortlisted Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Shortlisted Belfast Photofestival
Shortlisted FE+ Skinnerboox Book Award
Shortlisted Fiebre Dummy Award
Shortlisted Images Vevey Book Award
Photofusion Select Award
Photofusion Graduate Prize

Texts:

Slips and Burns, Caroline Molloy, Photomonitor
Mixed Memories, David Bate
Heaven Speed the Chameleon, Calum Beaney, C4 Journal

Education:
 
MA Photography Arts, University of Westminster
BA Hons English, Wadham College, University of Oxford

Teaching:

Mary Ward Centre (2026 -present)
Arts University Bournemouth (2024- present)
Kingston School of Art (2010-2025)

Qualifications:

PGCert Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2011